Tim Newman
@tnewmsblues.bsky.social
Labor + Tech | Currently @techequity.bsky.social | Formerly Coworker(.)org, Coworker Solidarity Fund, Change(.)org, International Labor Rights Forum
"Trump’s laissez-faire approach to AI has contrasted with developments outside Washington. AI laws have been proposed in every state & enacted in many, both red & blue... Support for the state laws has often been bipartisan” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
The surprising issue driving a wedge between Trump and his MAGA base
President Donald Trump’s attempt to block states from regulating AI sparked pushback from Republicans concerned the tech will displace workers and harm kids.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"Trump’s laissez-faire approach to AI has contrasted with developments outside Washington. AI laws have been proposed in every state & enacted in many, both red & blue... Support for the state laws has often been bipartisan” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Reposted by Tim Newman
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 AM
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Our report argues that we need to “devote more attention to the perspectives of data workers themselves, who are closest to the production of AI, as we debate what guardrails need to be in place” cwa-union.org/ghost-worker...
This article helps explain why! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
This article helps explain why! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Ghost Workers in the AI Machine:
U.S. Data Workers Speak Out About Big Tech’s Exploitation
cwa-union.org
November 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Our report argues that we need to “devote more attention to the perspectives of data workers themselves, who are closest to the production of AI, as we debate what guardrails need to be in place” cwa-union.org/ghost-worker...
This article helps explain why! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
This article helps explain why! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Thanks for writing it — and for sharing this article! Excited to dig into this one too.
November 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Thanks for writing it — and for sharing this article! Excited to dig into this one too.
We simply do not have to accept the future envisioned by a handful of tech CEOs to enrich themselves.
But we have to continue to build collective organizing power to enact a pro-worker future.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
But we have to continue to build collective organizing power to enact a pro-worker future.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
!["It will evolve and transition certain jobs, and people will need to adapt," he said. Those who do adapt to AI "will do better".
"It doesn't matter whether you want to be a teacher [or] a doctor. All those professions will be around, but the people who will do well in each of those professions are people who learn how to use these tools."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v7hxrviu42jr2gzqcdi4uyvr/bafkreifk7ohzrsvlfjigibyjktsc32oav5fu7j5kz2r567heundudj2kxm@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
We simply do not have to accept the future envisioned by a handful of tech CEOs to enrich themselves.
But we have to continue to build collective organizing power to enact a pro-worker future.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
But we have to continue to build collective organizing power to enact a pro-worker future.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
“The problems at Cloudflare come less than a month after an outage of AWS brought down thousands of sites. ‘We’re seeing how few of these companies there are in the infrastructure of the internet, so that when one of them fails it becomes really obvious quickly’” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Cloudflare outage causes error messages across the internet
US company that defends millions of websites against malicious attacks says it believes issue ‘is now resolved’
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
“The problems at Cloudflare come less than a month after an outage of AWS brought down thousands of sites. ‘We’re seeing how few of these companies there are in the infrastructure of the internet, so that when one of them fails it becomes really obvious quickly’” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...